May 30, 2012

After Mogo zoo, we stop for lunch at Batemans Bay and then drive further north to take Coco home but not without first stopping to check some surf spots. Bawley Point, you can just see the 3 jet ski's and looks like what promises to be an amazing sunset and bodyboarder getting shacked ! Check how close to the rocks the waves breaks, and how close we can get to the action nice, would love to see the view from inside I'm using my damaged 70-200mm lens ( the two front glass elements fell out and I just popped them back in ) so they are not the sharpest of photos. holy cow, check this out, tow in, and drop straight into a little pearlerof a wave, love how he has to do a cutback on the drop to line it up, and then another stall hmmm, why have the colours gone all funky on me when I saved this as a gif, anyone ? It's taking away now from a nice looking wave While all that surf action is going on, the skies above are lighting up ! just beautiful, feeling blessed to get such an awesome sky to photograph !! Holy Cow part II, monster set comes barreliing through, nice wave !! 2 things, A- the size of it B- how it sucks out below sea level and below the line of the rocks. Would not want to wipe out there so close to the rocks ! :-)Just spectacular

Coco & the twins and a captivated crowd also happy to be snapping this awesome scenery ( the first photo is more of a deer in headlights shot hehehe )

what to shoot , the picture perfect waves or firing sky bit of an afternoon crowd building, it is a great natural viewing platform

getting pretty dark now, so cranked up the ISO for this one, and what a great stand up barrel ! love love love this photo and this . . . my favourite , going home after a late arvo session :-)

May 28, 2012

Our last day on the south Coast, we spend the day with Coco , starting with Mogo Zoo I never thought I would be going to a zoo outside of the major cities, so now we been to Dubbo zoo and today Mogo, and not a bad zoo at all, not as massive . but still plenty to see, and a nice zoo love the colour of this guy looks like a cheeky bugger :-) lots of these around and you can hand feed them big hit with the kids of course these on the other hand are not to be hand fed. there were two of them, and pacing up and down non stop, why, because they have just gotten big sheets of glass as a barrier, so we can see them quite easily, but they can also quite clearly now see the herd of Zebras behind us, and I guess they are trying to work out how to get to those Zebras

Just had to come back to see it in daylight lots of nice colours form all the moss on rocks as well no sand here just pebbles and moss covered rocks let's call it Mysteries Pebbly beach we're all photographers now love those flattened shells, would make nice buttons This is how we get smooth rocks and flattend shells

so many many shells on this pebbly beach that right hander trying to do it, and am thinking about it :-)

May 27, 2012

We are staying at the lovely Mystery Bay Cottages, and at the end of the road , Mystery Bay, and as you can see, not a surfing beach with all those rocks ( but a beach called 1080 around the corner is where its suppose to happen ) bit of swell around too I can see people enjoying their walk along here

after we check in , we quickly get down to this other track that leads from the cottages to another beach right next to Mystery Bay trying out the camera's high ISO setting, it's pretty dark right now works ok ( be better if I had camera on a tripod ) works even better with Jacqui's video light :-)

Just near Talba lives Coco's grand dad, so we pop in for a visit and he has a deer farm nice to get amongst all the deer, not wild, but not tame either Male and herd competition he has a couple of pigs as well and they love choko's ( you know, as in McDonalds sell you apple flavoured Choko pies ) curious fact, that hide/fur on a pig's back is so coarse, very hard this how we roll on Pete's property :-)

May 26, 2012

pretty little cabin on dam, check the pine tree growing on the island, few more years and that should be an awesome tree in the middle of the dam big dam being fed by a little waterfall

time for lunch so we stop of at Tilba Winerythe girls pre occupying them selves with my phone

they been making video recording, well I hope they are , and not playing some game their mum wouldn't want them to :-) after lunch we head of to Peter's place all these colourful beehives caught our eye hmm, must buy some local honey before we leave.